Jon Elkon Author – Annals of Tom series, Sally’s Road, Some Day Soon, Raggazo
Jon Elkon left Apartheid South Africa when he was twenty-one and after a year or two living rough has worked variously in pop music, diamonds, timber and teaching. His many novels, poems and blogs are genre-spanning, from political satire to historical humour to Opera and a stab at suspense and crime.
Jon Elkon left Apartheid South Africa when he was twenty-one and after a year or two living rough has worked variously in pop music, diamonds, timber and teaching. His many novels, poems and blogs are genre-spanning, from political satire to historical humour to Opera and a stab at suspense and crime.
The Books
Laslo’s Millions
In Laszlo’s Millions, the pain and playfulness of the first novel, Umfaan’s Heroes, reaches a crescendo in the London of the seventies.
Here drugs, money, spies and priapic Counts conspire to make the hero’s life veer from the ridiculous to the utterly sublime.
While strictly speaking this book is a sequel, it stands on its own both as a rich farce and a deeply disturbing peek into human greed and fear.
